Can this just stop? It's super annoying because it so wrong. First, that's not an atheist, that's an angry theist. Secondly, it propose that atheists don't exist. This is pretty much a shill gambit. It's a divine conspiracy theory, that says the atheist, is really just a theist and that one cannot be an atheist. If anything, this is really just an excuse not to listen to atheists; an excuse for willful ignorance. It's a childish statement that is basically this: "You're just a big fat meanie head! We don't have to listen to you!"

Gendou_Augustus wrote:Can this just stop? It's super annoying because it so wrong. First, that's not an atheist, that's an angry theist. Secondly, it propose that atheists don't exist. This is pretty much a shill gambit. It's a divine conspiracy theory, that says the atheist, is really just a theist and that one cannot be an atheist. If anything, this is really just an excuse not to listen to atheists; an excuse for willful ignorance. It's a childish statement that is basically this: "You're just a big fat meanie head! We don't have to listen to you!"

Although it kinda does propose that atheists don't exist, I'm not convinced that's what they're really trying to do when they use this weird argument. I don't think that's what they're going for. I think it's more along the lines of 'you're mad at gawd cos you wanna sin' and they don't realise or notice that they're denying that you actually are an atheist in that statement.

But yes it's mildly irritating. TBH anyone engaged in that level of thinking isn't someone I'd waste my time debating or discussing with. Unless there was some other indication that they could genuinely be open to just being flat out wrong.

Visaki wrote:How dare you blaspheme against our Lord and Saviour so! You'll be sorry when he returns, reforges The One True Ring and judges over the Middle-Earth!

No, no, no. The one true God is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You'll be sorry when he strangles you with his noodley appendage for worshipping false gods.

Hey, at least Sauron tried to lead the second class citizens of Middle-Earth in a rebellion that would've seen them all living somewhere other than a volcanic wasteland. What did the Flying Spaghetti Monster do for anyone?

psikhrangkur wrote:Hey, at least Sauron tried to lead the second class citizens of Middle-Earth in a rebellion that would've seen them all living somewhere other than a volcanic wasteland. What did the Flying Spaghetti Monster do for anyone?

Alright - Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health - WHAT have the Flying Spaghetti Monster ever done for us!

psikhrangkur wrote:Hey, at least Sauron tried to lead the second class citizens of Middle-Earth in a rebellion that would've seen them all living somewhere other than a volcanic wasteland. What did the Flying Spaghetti Monster do for anyone?

Alright - Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health - WHAT have the Flying Spaghetti Monster ever done for us!

psikhrangkur wrote:Hey, at least Sauron tried to lead the second class citizens of Middle-Earth in a rebellion that would've seen them all living somewhere other than a volcanic wasteland. What did the Flying Spaghetti Monster do for anyone?

Alright - Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health - WHAT have the Flying Spaghetti Monster ever done for us!.

Not what 'has' the Flying Spaghetti Monster ever done for us... you said what HAVE.... meaning plural... meaning multiple gods... meaning polyspaghettism.... HEATHEN! Your false rigatoni will be cast down and slathered in molten cheesy sauce!

Not what 'has' the Flying Spaghetti Monster ever done for us... you said what HAVE.... meaning plural... meaning multiple gods... meaning polyspaghettism.... HEATHEN! Your false rigatoni will be cast down and slathered in molten cheesy sauce!

Well, isn't it more like an uncountable noun? Like rain comprising of raindrops the Flying Spaghetti Monster consists of infinite number of noodles?

Not what 'has' the Flying Spaghetti Monster ever done for us... you said what HAVE.... meaning plural... meaning multiple gods... meaning polyspaghettism.... HEATHEN! Your false rigatoni will be cast down and slathered in molten cheesy sauce!

Well, isn't it more like an uncountable noun? Like rain comprising of raindrops the Flying Spaghetti Monster consists of infinite number of noodles?

His noodly appendages are countable... it just wouldn't be very polite to do so!